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  • February 3, 2010 |

    Addleshaws set to overhaul bonus model for salaried partners

    Addleshaw Goddard is set to overhaul its salaried partner bonus scheme in a move expected to see the firm scrapping the firmwide performance element in favour of a scheme focused on individual performance. The national law firm is consulting with its 76-strong fixed-share partner rank about the proposed model, which it hopes will better reward individual contribution and align salaried partner remuneration with equity partners.

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  • January 21, 2010 |

    Barlows adds third partner to Manchester office with Hill Dicks hire

    Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has made its first lateral partner hire in Manchester since it launched the northern office last spring. Professional liability specialist James Preece has joined the firm's northern outpost from Hill Dickinson where he had been a partner for the past five years.

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Addleshaws LLP accounts reveal £20.9m costs of new London base

    Addleshaw Goddard spent £20.9m fitting out its new London office in Milton Gate, the firm's limited liability partnership (LLP) filings have revealed. According to the filings with Companies House, the national firm took out a £5.5m loan in order to help fund the process of setting up the new flagship office.

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  • January 13, 2010 |

    Hammonds adds partner duo in the regions with Shoosmiths and Addleshaws hires

    Hammonds has bulked up its corporate offering with two new partner hires. The national law firm has strengthened its Birmingham office with the hire of corporate partner Geoff Perry from local rival Shoosmiths, while the firm has also added to its Leeds corporate team with the hire of finance regulatory partner Paul Anderson from Addleshaw Goddard, where he was a legal director.

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  • December 21, 2009 | International Edition

    Law firm management: The hard sell

    "A consultant is a man who asks you for your watch and then tells you the time with it." Probably one of the more polite descriptions by one managing partner of the band of consultants circling law firms as the recession batters a profession that had grown used to unbroken growth. Though the legal sector has not been a major target for the consultancy industry until very recently, there are an increasing number of widely varying consultants aiming to advise firms on everything from marketing, client relationship management, IT general strategy and everything inbetween.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Law firm management: The hard sell

    "A consultant is a man who asks you for your watch and then tells you the time with it." Probably one of the more polite descriptions by one managing partner of the band of consultants circling law firms as the recession batters a profession that had grown used to unbroken growth. Though the legal sector has not been a major target for the consultancy industry until very recently, there are an increasing number of widely varying consultants aiming to advise firms on everything from marketing, client relationship management, IT general strategy and everything inbetween.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Training and education: All tied up

    The last few years have seen the College of Law, BPP Law School and, to a lesser extent, Kaplan Law School jostle with each other to secure tie-ups with the top law firms. In the main, firms have been receptive to their advances, with the result being that the vast majority of UK top 20 law firms - and many top 50 firms and US firms with London offices - now have arrangements in place to send their future trainees to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) exclusively with a certain course provider.

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  • December 17, 2009 |

    Third-party litigation funding broker Calunius set to launch private fund

    Specialist funding broker Calunius Capital - one of the first brokers to enter the UK third-party litigation funding market - is set to launch a private fund. Calunius will fund its own cases from January 2010, having previously raised capital via a range of methods including pension funds and private investors.

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  • December 14, 2009 |

    Addleshaw Goddard

    Arguably the most successful national/City merger...

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Mills & Reeve

    A well-regarded employer with a fast-growing private client practice

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